Your childhood taught you good things don't last. Your body still believes it.
Jeannine Rashidi is a TEDx speaker and bestselling author of Abundance Beyond Trauma —and her work on why we can't feel joy after a hard childhood is built on a story she lived first. With an ACE score of 10 out of 10, three marriages, and decades of confusing chaos for love, she eventually realized her nervous system had been waiting for the other shoe to drop her entire life. This is a conversation about what happens in the body when good things arrive, and why it takes so long to learn how to let them stay.
✨ What this episode explores
▪️ Why Dysfunctional Childhoods Block Your Capacity to Feel Good — How growing up around chaos doesn't just hurt you, it wires a nervous system that filters joy out before you can register it.
▪️ Why You Don't Feel Worthy of Joy — The quiet belief underneath the bracing that says good things belong to other people, and where that belief actually gets installed.
▪️ Always Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop — Why a nervous system that learned good things end becomes incapable of receiving good things, even when nothing's actually wrong.
▪️ When Anger Suppresses, the Body Expresses — Why the rage you don't get to feel finds another way out, and what's actually waiting underneath it asking to be heard.
▪️ Is It Your Gut or Is It Your Trauma — How to tell the difference between real intuition and a fear response when both feel exactly like a hunch.
Abundance Beyond Trauma: The Joyful Unfolding Journey
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🎧 If this episode resonated, you might also love:
▪️ Ep 84 — Abundance Beyond Trauma w/ Jeannine Rashidi
▪️Ep 173 — Secret Language of the Body: Somatic Healing w/ Karden Rabin
▪️Ep 119 — Why Nothing's F*cking Wrong With You w/ Ana Del Castillo
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